Example sentences of "[to-vb] [n mass] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Clarks sued through their solicitor , and over a year later , after much bitter argument , agreed to accept £3,450 from the surveyor 's insurers . |
| 2 | The cross town route one of seven schemes in the county under threat was expected to attract £2m from the EC towards the £8m needed for the first stage of the road , between McMullen Road and Darlington 's southern bypass . |
| 3 | Typically these are pure public goods which can jointly benefit many people and where it is difficult to exclude people from the benefits . |
| 4 | It was awfully sporting of IBM Corp to set up consultancy , systems integration and facilities management ventures in an attempt to put to profitable use the surplus skills of so many of its employees , and only curmudgeons asked if IBMers were actually the right people for the job : sad to say , the curmudgeons were right , and according to Computerworld , the head of the new IBM Consulting Group in White Plains , New York , Robert Howe , says that it is having to hire people from the likes of Andersen Consulting and Coopers & Lybrand , because as he told the paper , ‘ we 've tried IBMers , but frankly we 've had to send some home — some IBM people did n't get the notion of the service business — they did n't understand that we did n't want administrators and middle managers ’ . |
| 5 | Members of the Skerne Park Community Action Group are to receive £2,000 from the TSB Foundation a charitable group set up in 1986 to encourage good causes . |
| 6 | Research at the North West Regional Research Laboratory ( NWRRL ) aims to create buffers around busy roads and junctions and to use data from the Cancer Registry to examine possible links between proximity to such sources of pollution and prevalence of lung cancer . |
| 7 | For example , some two years after initial involvement , one head was considering whether to levy 10% from the capitation of each department for library provision , hoping that such a move would involve more departments in enquiry-based learning . |
| 8 | It 's faster to read data from the cache than to load it from the hard disk . |
| 9 | York has a reputation as a determined cutter of costs , and at Chrysler , where he was executive vice-president for finance and chief financial officer , he helped to trim $4,600m from the company 's costs over four years . |
| 10 | As a responsible dog owner you must be prepared to deworm your dog regularly , not only for the sake of its health and other dogs , but also to protect people from the risk of the disease toxocariasis , as mentioned previously ( see page 36 ) . |
| 11 | In Britain umbrellas are thought to have been first used to protect people from the rain in Bath in the 1660s . |
| 12 | Things have got out of hand in the past but this time it 's just a fashion show , ’ said Mrs Deborah Keily of the NSPCC , which hoped to raise £20,000 from the show . |
| 13 | Also we are hoping to get people from the admin course to help with the . |
| 14 | Last year in 1989 the NCT had hoped to raise £90,000 from the lottery : they hoped everyone would sell 2 books of tickets . |
| 15 | You also need to be a good communicator , able to influence people from the boardroom to the shopfloor . |
| 16 | Then the group 's efforts to raise £750m from the Equity Three share placing looked like foundering . |
| 17 | Mr Sherwood has offered to raise $1.1billion from the sell-offs , and would use at least half the proceeds to buy back stock from shareholders at $70 a share . |
| 18 | However , I continued to collect data from the church school . |
| 19 | Until the blight is eradicated , no one will wish to employ people from the areas where this menace exists , and the poor will become poorer . |
| 20 | Molly Crook has booked a coach to take people from the Surrey area ( Mordern/Sutton ) . |
| 21 | when it was envisaged as a form of national salvation ? it was conceived in compassion but has been born and bred in authoritarianism , profligacy and frustration , it aimed to liberate people from the slums but has come to represent an even worse form of bondage , it aspired to beautify the urban environment , but has been transmogrified into the epitome of ugliness . |
| 22 | On the husband 's bankruptcy within two years of the consent order , the Trustee sought to recover £9,000 from the wife , that sum being the amount in excess of the value of her half share in the house . |
| 23 | Popularly , it is attributed to social philanthropy , and to successful campaigns to relieve people from the need to work in their old age . |
| 24 | By and large , we are talking about commuter lines designed to bring people from the south-east to central London in the morning and to take them home in the evening . |
| 25 | ‘ At the moment we are trying to dig people from the rubble . |
| 26 | A spokesman for the Amsterdam Fire Brigade added : ‘ At the moment we are trying to dig people from the rubble . |